Overview
The mountain guide Jakob is a controversial figure. His supposed father dies and leaves behind a great heritage to the people. In the town they consider Jakob a bastard, because his parents were not married, which means that without a testament, the lands in which he lives do not belong to him. But the testament indicates that the inheritance corresponds him under a single condition, he must be the first person to climb the east face of Monte Verità. French version of Die weisse majestat, shot the year before in German with the same script in the Eiger/Jungfrau region but with different actors and by a different director.
Director and cast
- Stephan Bloetzer as Stéphane Malten
- Werner Düby as L'ingénieur
- Gustav Diessl as Jacques Burgard
- Léon Belières as Malten
- Simone Bourday as Monique Ander
- Jean Toulout as Le pasteur
- Beni Führer as Guy Ander
- Lucien Dayle as Le président
- Jacques de Féraudy as Le juge fédéral Reymond
- Maximilienne as Mme Malten
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